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Letters Of Rahel, 3 Vols. 8vo, 1834; And...
wards . The physicians who were sent for found hex laboring under nervous palsy ; in about half an hour she became unconscious ,
and shortly after this noble being breathed her last . Thus did she behind vanish from herin among the words us , without of one word of her or biograp look of hers farewell 6 a fame , leaving both
great Varnhagen and beautiful , never , ' m and arried the again livelie . st He sorrow died last among summer - , all classes in Berlin . " ,
where he and Humboldt , now also gone to his rest , were nearly the last of those illustrious men who at the beginning of this century
had gathered round Rahel . Finally we would remind our readers that in a review of
Varnhagen von Ense ' s Memoirs , to be found in the fourth volume of marks ' Miscellanies are made ' by about Thomas Rahel Carl . y Even le , some those beautiful who know and touching it bheart rey
may not object to read once more the following sentences . " We say not that she was equal to De Stael , nor the contrary ; that
n she either miht that not she have mig written ht have far written better De books StaeTs . books She has , nor ideas even unequalle g d in De Stael ; a sinceritya pure tendernessand
genuineness which that celebrated , had notor had lost , . But what then ? The subjunctivethe person tative are vague , moods : there is no
tense one can found on but , the op preterite of the indicative Enough for usRahel did not write . She sat imprisoned , or it might be
sheltered , and fosteringly embowered , in those circumstances of hers ; she ' was not appointed to write or actbut only to live . ' Call her
, not unhappy on that account , call her not useless ; nay , perhaps , call her happier and usefuller . Blessed are the humble , are they
that are not known . It is written , ' Seekest thou great things , seek them not : ' live where thou art , only live wisely , live diligently .
Rahel ' s life was not an idle one for herself or for others : how many kindled souls may and the illuminated ' sparkles showering whose new from virtue that goes light-fountain on propagating ' have
be itself found , increasing in far itself laces , , ; under after , many incalculable days ! combinations She left no , and stamp will of p
herself on paper ; but in other ways , doubt it not , the virtue of her and of the working cannot good die and in this brave Is world a thing , seen will nothing or survive unseen because , all endures paper the . literall morning For the y for working papers ever ,
. have not mentioned it ? Or can a nothing be made something , by ever so much babbling of it there ? Far better , probably , that no
knew morning not or what evening the left paper was mentioned doing ! Rahel it ; that might tlie have right written hand
books , celebrated books . And yet , what of books ? Hast thou not namel already a a Life bible to to lead write ? , Silence and publish too , is in great print ; that there is sh eternal ould be ; y
, , great silent ones , too . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/27/
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